BR 'Parr' Bogie Rail Wagons

These vehicles are YQA 'Parr' Bogie Rail Wagons (Borail). As the name suggests, these were designed to carry rail with the load secured using lashing rings mounted on brackets on the solebarsThe outer member of a vehicle's underframe, running from end to end below the body.

BRBritish Rail or British Railways built rail carriers and 135 wagons were constructed to diagram 1/483. Under TOPSTotal Operations Processing System, an American computer system adopted by BR from the late 1960s to number and manage rolling stock. the Borail wagons were coded as BRV, the vacuum-braked variant. This was selected for upgrade work and in 1981 lot number 4012 was issued for conversions at Shildon works. Besides the modifications to the brakes and the fitting of new Y25C bogies, the body was altered to have 8in tall sides and ends, each side having 6 cutouts for strap tensioners. The lashing rings were removed but the brackets were left in situ, and six new bolsters were fitted. The rebuilt wagons were given new numbers 967500 to 967649, TOPSTotal Operations Processing System, an American computer system adopted by BR from the late 1960s to number and manage rolling stock. code BRA and design code BR006A. The BRAs had perhaps the shortest life in original use of any wagon type. The last were completed in January 1982 but, by early 1983, the whole fleet was transferred to departmental use and recoded YLA (YLA-B) to design code YL003A, and gained DC prefixes. To avoid confusion with the YMA Salmon fleet, the TOPSTotal Operations Processing System, an American computer system adopted by BR from the late 1960s to number and manage rolling stock. code for the Parr wagons was changed to YQA in 1990.

Acquisition and use by the SVRSevern Valley Railway

The Traffic Notice for 21 November 2017 showed a Class 66 locomotive was to bringing two wagons from Bescot. The move was cancelled due to no DBS Cargo driver being available. They were delivered on 14 December 2017 by locomotive 66066 and tripped to BY by local arrangement using visiting locomotive 33108, which was in use on engineers' trains.

They are air-braked so fit in well with the other similarly fitted 'Rudd' and Seacow ballast wagons.

Number	Originally built	Originally built by	Notes
DC96752n			Number TBC
DC967577

See also

List of goods wagons

References

LTSV Wagon information 16 March 2010 (retrieved 16 December 2017)

Links

Railway Heritage Register Wagon Survey
Photos of YQA wagons on Andy Jupe's website